How to reset south migrations to capture the current state of my django models

Question

I have an app that currently has 35 south migrations. These take a while to go through when setting up a new deployment (we create new deployments often), and the app is continu

Answer 1

I figured this out (wasn't too bad). To set up the migration reset, I do the following:

rm <app-dir>/migrations/*
python manage.py schemamigration <app-name> --initial
python manage.py migrate <app-name> 0001 --fake  --delete-ghost-migrations

I commit the changes to the repository, and then for each deployment of the code elsewhere, run:

python manage.py migrate <app-name> 0001 --fake --delete-ghost-migrations

Make sure you don't add anything new between the time you last migrated everywhere else and you reset things or the new 0001 migration won't match up with the schema!

Caveats: See guettli's comment (and my responses)